Stranger on the Earth

Do you ever have the peculiar feeling that you are a Stranger on the Earth ?

That you somehow do not belong here ?

That you do not feel comfortably 'at home' on this planet, ... this strange world ?

Or that you feel strangely 'out of place' or incongruous when amongst human beings, even though 

you may like them and enjoy their company.

Do you ever have the strange feeling that your identity as a 'person' within human society is not actually who you really are, but merely an invention, a construct, a facade ?

That you have been subtly coerced and channelled into being something and someone 

that is not you ?

Or that you were born to the wrong parents, in the wrong place or at the wrong time ?

Do you ever have the odd feeling that you are living someone else's life ?

Or that rather than actually living your life, you are in reality, being lived by IT ?

Or that your life is not really your own ?

Or that you have never actually lived your life on your own terms, but always on, 

or by, someone else's terms ?

Never truly living by your own design but always, 

ultimately and inevitably by the design of others ?

Do you ever have the feeling that your life is simply being 'lost in the process' of living ?

That you are merely 'going through the motions' 

without ever actually arriving at your true destination ?

That there is something terribly important missing from your existence, 

but you just can't think what it is ?

Or that all conventional human interactions, despite the fun and pleasures of it all, 

seem ultimately rather meaningless ?

Do you ever get the deep inner feeling that you are actually being 'processed' through your life ? 

That you are simply being swept along with the crowd, ... 

in some kind of production-line process  ? 

That your identity has been primarily given to you at your birth, not for your own personal benefit, 

but rather, simply in order to make your processing through life that much easier for those 

involved in doing the processing  ? 

And that your existence in this world is merely being tolerated on a temporary basis, 

on the condition and on the proviso that you contribute to the infrastructure of the human race 

through your hard work, productivity and conformity, ... 

and also through your constant and perpetual economically essential consumption 

of goods and payment of taxes  ? 

Have you ever wondered why the employees of all companies and business 

are now referred to by the rather derogatory and demeaning term 

of 'Human Resources'  ?  Whatever happened to the respectful and positive traditional term of 'Personnel' as was used in previous centuries  ?  Why such an apparently unnecessary change of terminology  ?  Why such a recently manifested occurrence of subtle irreverence and disrespect  towards one's fellow human beings  ? 

Are employees now viewed simply as an expendable and renewable resource by their employers  ? 

Are you viewed merely as being a member of a disposable workforce  ?  

Are employees seen as just transitory units of production by their employers  ?  

While you exist on this earth, are you considered to be nothing more than a name on a register, 

a number on a database and a figure in a workplace  ?  Do your employers view you as being nothing more than a mere human resource  ?  Do state economists classify you as being nothing more than a unit of economic production  ?  Does the business world consider you to be nothing more 

than a naive and gullible consumer, ... 

and does the financial world think of you as a mere temporary item of taxable livestock  ?

Are you simply considered to be a temporary, ... expendable, ... consumable, ... disposable, ... 

and replaceable item  ? 

... And will your children be also  ?

Do you ever have the distinct impression that the overwhelming majority of people that you see around you, in the media and on the streets are in some kind of Mass Collective Hypnotic Trance ?

That they are not truly being themselves and not really thinking for themselves, 

nor in control of their own minds, lives or destinies.

That they are merely acting out pre-ordained and pre-determined roles that they have been born into and given to play in society ?

Do you ever feel a little uneasy or apprehensive about living among a species whose major preoccupations throughout its history appear to have been war, aggression, conflict, competition, rivalry, conquest, tribalism, power, greed, violence, exploitation, manipulation, expansion, proliferation, domination, materialism, theft, appropriation, self-interest, self-obsession, narcissism, slavery, colonisation, urbanisation, industrialisation, environmental destruction, polluting the planet, killing, enslaving and persecuting animals and the manufacturing and mass-production of weapons of death, violence, war and destruction ?

Yet strangely, some individuals within this competitive species, this human race, ... 

are so kind, so gentle and so benign that they could easily be mistaken for angels.

Do you ever look at the plethora of chaos and madness that is around you, ... 

at the confusion and the commotion, the discord and the deception, the noise and babble, the mess and the clutter, the pesticides and the pollution, the trickery and the dishonesty, the urbanisation and industrialisation, the traffic and travel chaos, the killing, extermination and extinction of animal species, the ruination of the countryside and the natural environment, the destruction of all wildlife, 

the constant movement and the frenzied activity of the majority of the contemporary human world and think to yourself, ...

this is not the way intelligent life is supposed to act, ... there is something terribly wrong with this situation, ... this is not a true civilisation by any definition that I know of ?

Do you ever have the persistent and deep-seated feeling that you somehow do not belong 

to your own species ... the admittedly clever, resourceful, inventive and highly successful, ... 

yet ( according to the abundant empirical evidence and the historical record ) 

he restless, noisy, competitive, irresponsible, irrational, hyperactive, exploitative, egocentric, 

self-centered, self-obsessed, deceptive, delusional, dysfunctional, destructive, dogmatic, divided, dualistic, dischordianistic, polarised, highly-controversial and highly-questionable human race ?

If you are actually being totally honest and truthful with yourself, ... are you really rather disappointed and disillusioned with life, the world and the human race ?

Does the everyday world around you and your day-to-day existence all seem strangely superficial, contrived, artificial and unreal, ... almost like a dream ?

Does a quick browse through any world history book or national newspaper generally fill you with dismay, disappointment and disillusionment and confirm your doubts about 

the collective sanity of the human species ?

Are you living in a loop ?

Is your life seemingly in the state of continuous re-play ?

Is your existence merely a self-perpetuating, self-maintaining, self-governing, 

self-affirming, self-replicating cycle of inexorable and meaningless repetitions of human interactive phenomena punctuated with occasional holiday abroad ?

A daily enslavement to the relentless tyranny of the constant and continuous recycling of time and place and people within the closed system of a human paradigm ?

And to what end ..., for what real purpose ?

Is your life in fact, nothing more than simply an exercise in institutionalised, organised, 

and sophisticated time-wasting ?

Are you merely a manufactured product ?

Are you simply a construct of your culture ?

An inevitable and necessary creation of your species ?

A pre-packaged human commodity ?

A mere disposable, consumable, expendable and replaceable Human Resource ?

Are you one of the Invisible People ?

Are you one of those people who largely goes unnoticed, unrecognised 

and unacknowledged in this world ?

Are you one of those people who is looked upon by your culture and your society 

as 'ordinary', unremarkable or not worthy of any real note or esteem ?

Are you overlooked, misunderstood and not taken seriously by other human beings ?

Do you feel somehow detached from mainstreem conventional human society ?

Do you have that rather uneasy, underlying, subconscious feeling 

that you do not really 'belong' or 'fit in' ?

Are you one of those people who is not considered particularly good-looking, intelligent, academic, gifted, talented, charismatic or important by your own species ?

But who really knows you ? 

Who really knows what hidden wonders exist in your innermost mind ?

This judgemental and superficial world will never know your secrets,...

will never know the real you.  

Were you born under a 'Dark Star' ? 

Have you always felt that you were not ready or prepared to be born ? 

Have you been a disappointment to your parents ? 

Were you the 'Black Sheep' of your family ? 

Do you appear to have had nothing but bad luck all your life ? 

Have you always been overshadowed by an older sibling ? 

Does your life appear to have been a doomed and futile attempt at finding true love and happiness ?

What really dwells in the heart of a human being ?

Why do humans find it so easy to criticise one another, to deceive one another, 

to look down upon one another, to ignore one another, to be indifferent or insincere to one another, 

to be sarcastic and cynical to one another, to be cruel and spiteful to one another, 

to compete with one another, to argue with one another, to exploit one another, to lie to one another, 

to fight and kill one another, even to wage war on one another, ... ?

Yet find it so difficult and alien to their nature ... to love one another ?

To show love to someone who is not of their family, 

not of their blood or related to them in any way ?

Who is not adopted, nor a close friend or a neighbour,

To love a total stranger  ? 

Why is everyone so conventional  ?  

Why does almost everyone in modern human society appear to be so conformist and unadventurous  ?  

Why do most people seem to be afraid of true personal creativity and self-expression  ?  

Why isn't anyone's house painted lime green  ? 

Why are no front doors coloured with stripes or swirls  ? 

Why are no motor cars decorated with patterns or images  ?  

Why don't men wear orange capes or violet scarves  ? 

Why are people laughed at or frowned upon if they wear colourful or flamboyant clothes  ?  

Why does everyone's garden look more or less the same as everyone else's  ?

Why do most people have to become intoxicated with alcohol simply in order to be themselves 

or to express themselves  ?  

Are we all living in a psychological prison  ? 

Why does almost everyone want to be normal  ? 

What is this strange and apparently widespread obsession that almost everyone 

seems to have with being ..... 'normal'  ?

Why do most human beings apparently want to be, or at least appear to be, 

what they perceive as, or what is generally perceived to be, ... 'normal'  ?  

Does the word 'normal' not also carry many negative meanings and connotations  ?  

Does this word not also mean or imply, ... ordinary, average, unexceptional, typical, usual, predictable, standardised and commonplace  ? 

Who on earth would want to be described as any of these  ? 

Furthermore, do the so-called 'normal' people really have such happy, healthy, trouble-free lives  ?  

The empirical evidence strongly suggests otherwise.

What rights did you have before you were conceived  ? 

Before you came into existence  ?

What rights did you have regarding your creation by two already existing humans  ?

What rights does the unconceived and uncreated human being actually have  ?

Why does the individual not have the right not to be born  ?

Why does an individual human being not have the right not to be created 

and brought into existence by unsuitable or inappropriate progenitors 

or into unfavourable conditions or circumstances  ?

Why does the individual not have the right not to be brought into existence by inadequate progenitors and / or into a sub-optimal environment that they would never have consciously or willingly chosen 

if they had been given the choice  ?

What results and repercussions befall the individual due to the fact that an uncreated human being does not have the opportunity to choose their progenitors or the circumstances of their birth  ?  

How do you feel about the fact that you played no part, had no say or were given no choice (or choices) whatsoever in the entire process of your creation  ? 

That you did not even have the opportunity to choose your own parents  ? 

Also, why is it always assumed by (future) parents that their (as yet) unconceived offspring would even want to be created in the first place  ? 

Furthermore, why is it always assumed by (future) parents that their (future) children would even, specifically want to have them as their parents  ? 

Or, even to be brought into existence in this particular world  ? 

 On this chaotic, over-crowded, troubled and far-from-perfect planet  ?  

And why, indeed, is it always invariably and unquestionably assumed by future parents 

that an, as yet, un-created entity would even want to be brought into existence as a human being  ?   

( a relatively short-lived species with a troubled psychology, a questionable nature, a fairly arduous existence and a problematic life-cycle; an appalling historical record, a gruesome past, a crisis-stricken present and an uncertain future ).  

What exactly are the specific legal and ethical rights of 

an, as yet, un-created and unconceived human being  ?

Does she or he have any rights at all  ?  

Why were you made  ?  

Why were you created  ?  

Why were you brought into existence  ?  

Do you ever wonder why you were created  ?  

Exactly why did your progenitors create you  ?

For what precise reason  ?  For what exact purpose  ?  

Do you ever question the motives, the reasons and the purpose of your own creation  ?

Why, exactly, do most human beings choose to create new human beings  ?  

And why does this question never get asked  ?

What are the benefits and advantages for progenitors of making progeny  ?

For what specific purposes or reasons were you produced  ?

Were they logical, ethical, rational, legitimate and justified  ?

Why, exactly, do a pair of humans suddenly decide to make an approximate 

genetic copy of themselves  ?

What specific thought processes led to that decision being made  ?

Were you created for YOU, ... or where you created primarily and specifically for your PROGENITORS  ?

Do many humans actually create new individuals simply and primarily to benefit and satisfy themselves, with little or no real thought or consideration for their offspring  ?

Are any ulterior motives, hidden agendas, selfish desires, self-interest, economic factors, irrational instincts, self-indulgence or personal benefits or interests involved  ?  

If so, what are they  ?

Were you brought into existence principally to fulfill and undertake a number of specific roles, duties, functions and obligations which would have primarily benefited your progenitors  ? 

Were you, in fact, created primarily as a necessary or personal commodity  ?  

Were you, in fact, an unwitting participant in your own creation, compulsorily conscripted into 

some sector of the human battlefield without your approval, consent or permission, 

whether you wanted to be or not  ?  

Life, ... it seems, ... - whether good or bad, ... whether you wanted it or not - ... 

appears to be an unavoidable, inescapable, obligatory, totalitarian and compulsory  mandate, forced and imposed upon all unwitting participants, involuntarily conscripted into the human race.

Why does a birth certificate state the date of birth and the place of birth, 

yet completely omits to indicate, or even mention, what is apparently the most important and relevant piece of information of all, especially concerning and regarding the person concerned, 

which is  ... the specific PURPOSE of birth  ?

Why is a licence required for such innocuous and mundane activities as watching a television, 

driving a car or fishing in a river, yet no licence of any sort is required for the extremely consequential and significant undertaking of creating a new human being  ?  

Why are two human beings legally and rightfully obliged to undergo a lengthy  selection and examination process in order to be considered to be eligible to adopt even one child, 

yet anyone whomsoever, ... even the most inappropriate or poverty-stricken people, 

living in the most dire of circumstances can perfectly legally create and bring into existence 

as many children as they wish into childhoods and lives of relative poverty and deprivation, followed, almost certainly, by difficult and unsatisfactory futures  ?

Do you ever remember agreeing to, signing up for, or giving your consent to a finite, limited and alarmingly short human lifespan on the day that you were born  ? 

Do you therefore, seriously feel duped and deceived by the rather questionable, compulsory and involuntary biological contract unilaterally imposed upon you by your parents  ?

Does the thought of being alive for just a mere 70 or 80 years and then suddenly dying not exactly inspire you with permanent and abounding optimism ? ( many earth organisms have far longer 

life-spans than humans.  Some species of clam, for instance, a simple marine mollusc, related to the common garden slug, can live for over 500 years, making the human life-span look ridiculously short ).